Lewis Boan
From the pension of Lewis Boan:Henry Boan (of Chesterfield District, South Carolina) says that " he is the son, the eldest living child of Lewis Boan and Mary Boan. Deponent always understood that his father, Lewis Boan was a Whig and served in the War of the Revolution. Deponent has often heard his father say that he turned out as a volunteer against the Tories at the age of sixteen. Deponent also heard his father say that he served near Charleston on Sullivans Island, Bulls Island and other places as a drafted soldier, a tour of six months. Deponent has also heard his father say that he served another tour, but how long deponent does not remember. That his father said in the time of this last tour he was in the fight at Betti Bridge on Drowning Creek in North Carolina, where he was wounded and taken prisoner, and that he was afterwards paroled by Fanning the Tory Colonel who commanded the enemy at Betti Bridge. His father was wounded in the thigh, four or five inches above the knee. Deponent has often seen the scars, one on each side of the thigh where the ball passed.command of Colonel Wade."